What is "nonparticipant"

Usage examples of "nonparticipant".

He looked deferentially toward Surak, who thus far had remained a profoundly trou-bled nonparticipant in the discussion.

As a nonparticipant he would find himself unwillingly stuck on 207GST, perhaps the only human amid a small horde of servitor machines.

The rule on Constabulary interference seemed to be that while individuals had an unquestionable right to shoot out their differences among themselves, any fighting likely to endanger nonparticipants was taboo.